Classwork Unit:1
Exercise 1
As a class, discuss and categorise these actions as “cheating” or “not cheating” or “it depends”.
Exercise 2
Read the statements in Exercise 1 and justify different categories of honest and dishonest academic practices.
1.You copy just one answer from another student’s homework and submit it.
Answer for Exercise 1: Cheating.
Answer for Exercise 2: Commissioning, dishonest academic practices.
2.You used a single sentence from an online source with a citation.
Answer for Exercise 1: Not Cheating
Answer for Exercise 2: Honest academic practices.
3.You discuss ideas with another student while preparing for an assignment.
Answer for Exercise 1: It depends
Answer for Exercise 2: Discussion of idea is completely fine. However, copying and altering may consider as falsification of data.
4.You have been assigned a presentation task on IT skills. You include pictures downloaded from the internet on your slides.
Answer for Exercise 1: Cheating
Answer for Exercise 2: Plagiarism, dishonest academic practices.
5.You wrote a 5-page paper arguing against an issue in your History I class. Your History II Lecturer assigns the same kind of paper three weeks later. You edit the same History paper and submit it.
Answer for Exercise 1: Cheating
Answer for Exercise 2: Duplication, dishonest academic practices.
6.You used a piece of information in an assignment with proper conventions. However, you reproduced the same information without acknowledgment in an exam response.
Answer for Exercise 1: It depends
Answer for Exercise 2: We cannot say it is completely dishonest act since access to source might not be possible and proper acknowledgment to the source might be hard.
7.You quote a sentence from a reading or lecture slides in an assignment with acknowledgement.
Answer for Exercise 1: Not cheating
Answer for Exercise 2: Honest academic practices.
8.You command of written English is not as good as you would like to be. You explain to your friend what you want to say in the essay-all your own ideas-and your friend writes it for you, and you then submit it.
Answer for Exercise 1: Cheating
Answer for Exercise 2: commissioning, dishonest academic practices.
9.You are unfamiliar with the essay topic assigned for ACS101.You realise your senior knows more about the topic, so you ask her to write the assignment and submit it.
Answer for Exercise 1: Cheating
Answer for Exercise 2: commissioning, dishonest academic practices.
10.You have been assigned as part of a group to complete a group assignment. All members of the group work on some sections of the assignment, but you did the majority of the work, so you submit it as an individual assignment.
Answer for Exercise 1: Cheating
Answer for Exercise 2: Collusion, dishonest academic practices.